River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07
WISCONSIN NEWS.

The Berlin city physician gets $50
per year and furnishes his own medi-
cines.
Fond du Lac will attempt to collect
overflow damages from the govern
ment.
About $50 crates of blueberries are
being shipped from Black River Falls
daily.
1t will cost Racine $l4.I5 per foot
to protect its lake front from the
waves.
Two Rivers is to have factory for
the manufacture OF printers wood fur
niture
A Milwaukee syndicate is said 10
have invested 100000. in Chicago
real estate.
1t is reported that Manitowoc people
have been swiEdled by sailed Colo
RADIO gold mine.
At Norwich, Mich, a mine abandon
ed by Oshkosh men turned out TO be
worth millions.
The Berlin journal has been boy
cotted by dog-owners because the ed
itor favored taxing CANNES
Miss Mary Evans, of Mackford. acct
IDENTIFY got some I've in one of her eyes
and lost the use of that member.
a free site was offered the St. Paul
company if it would locate its shops
recently burned ST WATERFOWL, in that
city.
y wealthy Racine farmer wheels all
his marketable wares into the city.
some ten miles from hi, farm. on 4
wheelbarrow.
The next encampment of the grand
commandery. knights Templar, viii De
held at Riverside park, Neenah, the
latter part of July
The tug Ella NJ smith arrived at
Green Bay with raft containing
I 100000 feet of logs. This is the
biggest tow ever taken out Of the
MenOminee river.
Business men in Neenah have sub
scribed 5000 and obtained permission of
the council to sink an artesian well at
the intersection of the middle lines of
two principal streets
Some of the tramps hanging about
Beloit have gone TO making coin. 4
sample 10-cent piece of their produc-
ton, poor specimen Of counterfeiting.
has reached the police.
1t IS said the money to fight the
new Wisconsin fish law IS furnished
to the Oshkosh fishermen By ST. Louis
and Chicago fish dealers. Gabe Bouck
IS the lawyer they have retained.
II is reported that the prosecuting
attorney of Racine county has decided
not TO again Try John Jampor on the
charge of setting bomb at the en-
trance of ex- Mayor Secor's grounds
The deadly sidewalk got ia lis work
at Michigamme H. " jackson.
railroad engineer was 50 badly injured
by fall that it has been decided that
he must suffer the amputation Of a lee
The Douglas Center Roller Mills Is
about 10 be removed 20 Portage, the
/ people of that city having rendered the
proprietors, York Il Sons, a bonus of
! $50, 900 in cash and thousand bushel,
of wheat
John Krett, who has served two
terms in Waupun for attempted Grim
inal assault has been sentenced to
twenty-five years in the Minnesota pen
itentiary for an assault upon i3-yeir-
old girl.
Frank Wilcox and Richard Reese.
charged with assaulting DIR. Palmer a
La Crosse dentist, for the alleged rea-
son that his bill for extracting a young
lady tooth was excessive, have been ac-
quilted of the charge
c. b. Hewitt superintendent of The
Fox River Sewer Pipe company, Osh-
kosh, started for southern California
OH Sunday night to look after sewer
pipe contracts amounting 10 500. 600.
which are about to be let
The case of Crowley vs.. the Webster
estate at Omro, will be tried in july
at Ashland. Crowley purchased from
the executors a lot OF pine land in
Sawyer county for $50, 800, which the
executors Of the estate refused TO deed.
Eau Claire offers 500 per head for
each male or female operative who
shall be regularly and steadily employed
in a legitimate manufacturing enter
prise TO the concern so EMPLOYING
them, as an indHcement to locate in
that city
The survey of the line for the Wis
consin Midland railroad to Sturgeon
Bay was completed Monday. Fond du
Lac parties have returned from "a trip
through Outagamie and Shawqno coun-
ties, and report everything moving
finely toward the fulfilment of the Mid
land project.
Albert Calvus, of Oshkosh, the man
who was driving Frank Lasts team ~
the time it ran away and was drowned
in the river, has retained Col. Bouck
and unless the Wisconsin Central
pays the amount of damages
which viii be demanded. viii commence
suit against the company Immediately
that the raiload company was
grossly negligent in switching on
public highway.
The Executive Committee of Cornell
trustees completed and for
warded a contract disposing of the pine
timber on about y, 900 acres Of land in
Penokee group, Ashland county. Wis
ooHsin. The amount received for this
timber is over 100000, and the uni
Eersity will now have the income irons
hat very handsome sum. The univer-
sity Still owns the land from which
-nis is to be cut. II il full of iron. and
: very valuable.
A meeting was held in Oshkosh that
promises 10 uneaTth "a mining swindle
# great proportions There were
bout forty men in attendance. princi-
ally Germans who came mostly from
hat, Calumet. Dodge, Fond du Lac.
Washington. jefferson, Sheboygan and
Naukesha counties. They are share
Ielders in several Arizona mining com
'anies that have been organized within
he past five years They claim to have.
invested their money on fraudulent rep.
and now propose to bring
he men who have robbed them to
ustice.
The State Board of Supervision held
IS monthly meeting at Madison June
o. The resignation Of DR. K. NJ.
FiggintOn a Superintendent Of the
'orthern Hospital for the Insane wa.
ccepted and DR. Kempster, elected to
ne position. Accounts were audited
for the maintenance Of the
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